US5747144A - Costumes with semi-rigid fabric components and method of manufacture of same - Google Patents
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- costumes are significant. Many adults hold costume/masquerade parties from time to time, to which they invite friends, relatives and acquaintances. They attend dressed in costumes. Consequently, costumes are a popular form of clothing around the world. Wearing a distinct and unusual costume, allowing the wearer to more accurately masquerade or portray the character of the costume, is very important. Thus, a non-muscled or physically unfit individual or small child, if provided with a realistic three dimensional upper torso, apparently muscle toned, is highly regarded and desirably sought.
- a costume primarily made of cloth, having rigid or semi-rigid fabric body elements to simulate three dimensional costume components.
- a method of manufacturing a costume which is easy, inexpensive, and allows rigid fabric-based body elements to be sewn together with traditional cloth to form a novel costume and effect.
- an improved and attractive costume having a semi-rigid fabric construction as one of its costume components. This provides a realistic three-dimensional appearance for a costume, a very desirable feature for masquerading.
- An object of the present invention is to provide a costume with a rigid or semi-rigid component.
- a further object of the present invention is to provide a costume with a molded fabric component.
- a further object of the present invention is to provide a cloth or fabric costume with fabric-covered body components that retain a rigid, semi-rigid or three-dimensional shape.
- a further object of the present invention is to provide a cloth or fabric-covered costume which has enlarged, semi-rigid or three-dimensional muscle-like features.
- a further object of the present invention is to provide a cloth or fabric-covered costume having a semi-rigid fabric-covered torso portion of well-developed three-dimensional muscular shape.
- a further object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a fabric-based costume with a fabric-covered rigid or semi-rigid shape incorporated therein.
- a further object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a costume in which rigid or semi-rigid fabric components can be attached, by sewing, to ordinary fabric or cloth.
- a further object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a costume out of fabric, which has portions having a semi-rigid, three-dimensional, muscle-like appearance.
- FIG. 2 is a front, bottom and right perspective view of a sheet of fabric and a sheet of H-Cell foam material, prior to being fused together in accordance with the present invention.
- FIG. 3 is a front, bottom and right perspective view of the fabric and H-Cell foam materials of FIG. 2 after fusing of the H-Cell foam material with the fabric, to form a single sheet of laminated material, in accordance with the present invention.
- FIG. 4 is a front, bottom and right perspective view of the sheet of laminated material of FIG. 3, after a general die cut, in accordance with the present invention.
- FIG. 5 is a front, bottom and right perspective view of the die cut material of FIG. 4, after application by printing or silk screening of stretchable ink, in accordance with the present invention.
- FIG. 6 is a front, bottom and right perspective view of the inked laminated material of FIG. 5, after vacuum molding to form a specific three-dimensional shape.
- the shape shown in the embodiment illustrated in the Figure is a muscular upper torso.
- FIG. 7 is a front, bottom and right perspective view of the vacuum molded costume component of FIG. 6 after a fine die cut, to form the finished upper torso, prior to sewing it into a finished costume.
- FIG. 8 is a cross section of the vacuum molded costume component of FIG. 7, taken along lines 8--8 of FIG. 7;
- FIG. 9 is a front view of a costume, in accordance with the present invention, having the three-dimensional muscular upper torso costume component of FIG. 7 sewn to arms, pelvis, and legs of fabric to form a complete costume.
- FIG. 1 a flow chart is provided of the various steps used in the manufacture of a costume, in accordance with the present invention. Reference may be made to the flow chart in conjunction with the description of the other figures showing the preferred embodiment of the finished costume, in its various stages of manufacture.
- the figures demonstrate the use of the present invention to make a muscular looking superhero chestpiece, it will be appreciated that the present invention can be used to make any desired semi-rigid shape or three dimensional, fabric-covered component for a costume, and is not limited to the embodiment disclosed.
- the semi-rigid costume components created in accordance with the present invention can be sewn into any portion of a costume, and is not limited to the chestpiece shown.
- a sheet of fabric 12 is depicted, in conjunction with a sheet of H-Cell foam material 15.
- the fabric can be, for example, a sheet of polyester. Other garment fabric materials can be used, as well.
- the H Cell foam material 15 is an open cell foam material. In the preferred embodiment, it is about 5/16" in thickness.
- the sheet of fabric 12 is placed on top of H-Cell foam sheet 15 and then, the composite is subjected to heat and pressure. Two layers are fused together, and the process is shown schematically in Block A of FIG. 1. The fusing laminates the fabric to the foam to form a dual layer of laminated material 22, as shown in FIG. 3.
- the laminated material 22 is subjected to a gross or general die cut which results in the material having square edges, facilitating printing thereon.
- the general die cut step is shown schematically in FIG. 1, as Block B. This results in rectangles or squares 26, as shown in FIG. 4.
- Each of these rectangles or squares 26 can be used to form a separate costume component or several components can be made from a square 26, if each is suitably dimensioned.
- stretchable ink 32 is printed or applied in a desired artistic manner to square 26.
- the stretchable ink 32 is applied to show three bars 28 and a circle 31 having the letter "R".
- the combination of shapes to be printed is for illustration purposes, and can be used for example, to make a superhero chestpiece for a costume of the superhero "Robin®” as the character appears in the famous "Batman® and Robin®” adventures of Warner Communications Corp. Any other desired shapes, letters, accent lines, etc., can likewise be utilized and printed on the laminated sheet, in accordance with the needs of the specific costume to be made.
- the stretchable ink is a process which must take the three-dimensional characteristics of the final desired costume component into account.
- the laminated material 22 is a flat surface.
- the stretchable ink will often be printed on or applied initially in a distorted shape on the flat sheet or surface. It is intended, however, that the printing, when vacuum formed into its ultimate three-dimensional shape will have the desired straight lines and/or curves and present a clean exact look without gaps or spaces in the designs.
- the initial stretchable ink will be applied to the costume in a shape which takes into account the curvature expected after molding of the laminated material 22. Consequently, when initially applied, the stretchable ink may appear distorted, as that ink is intended to be stretched by vacuum molding into the desired three-dimensional shape on the final costume component.
- the stretchable ink shape will be transformed from the distorted shape into the final shape desired.
- the exact shape required for the printing, so as to create the desired shape after stretching, may be determined by trial and error, or by computer modelling.
- stretchable ink is not necessary for practice of the present invention, since a costume component can be fabricated having an interesting shape alone, with no printing upon it, in many costume designs the use of the stretchable ink printed onto the fabric, to further adorn the costume, is preferred.
- the laminated and now printed on material is vacuum formed or molded into a costume component 35 in the specific shape desired.
- Block D of FIG. 1. This is also shown in FIG. 6.
- the combination of the lamination of fabric to H-celled foam, previously described, and the vacuum molding step creates and results in a semi-rigid, three-dimensional fabric-covered section of material in the desired shape. Yet, even though this material is semi-rigid, it is still easily sewn to other fabric components. This is because the fabric top layer of the laminate can be sewn to other fabric-only pieces, in a conventional sewing technique. In the embodiment shown in FIG.
- the material is vacuum molded into a chestpiece component which provides the appearance of the upper torso of a superhero costume.
- the chestpiece is ridged and shaped to appear like a very muscular and well-tuned torso. Due to the vacuum molding rigidity created by the process described herein, the component retains its distinctive rippled shape. This shape endures even after the component is removed from the molding apparatus.
- FIG. 9 A cross section of the three-dimensionally configured, semi-rigid costume component is shown in FIG. 8.
- Block E of FIG. 1 schematically represents the fine die cut step.
- the costume component 35 can then be easily sewn together with other fabric sections to form a full costume, as shown in FIG. 9.
- Costume component 35 a muscular upper torso, is sewn to arms 38 and to pelvis 40 (which is itself attached to legs 48) to form a superhero costume, as shown.
- the fabric sections 38, 40 and 48 are supple and flexible, the torso area created by the present invention maintains a shell-like semi-rigidity. This lends an attractive and unusual effect to the costume, and creates a novel form of costume which is not present in the prior art.
- the process is easy and inexpensive, and efficiently produces a desirable effect.
- the final assembly of the costume component 35 with the fabric sections 38, 40 and 48 is schematically represented by Block F in FIG. 1.
- FIG. 8 is a cross sectional view of a portion of the vacuum formed chestpiece 35. Circle 31 is shown on top of the chest and is not to scale but shown of a greater relative thickness for clarity of illustration.
- the present invention can be used to make numerous different costume types and designs. As shown in the embodiment illustrated in the Figures, it can be used to form a Robin® superhero type costume, in which the upper torso is a muscular semi-rigid type shell. In this embodiment, the rib cage, abdominal and pectoral muscles are clearly prominent. Any other costume component can be constructed using the present invention, and that costume component can either be worn as it is, or be sewn together with sections of fabric. As a result, a highly distinctive effect is produced.
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